CONTENTS. VII 



Page. 



Autarotic Exploration, hy G. S. Griffiths 293 



History of Geodetic Operations la Russia, by B.Witskowski andJ. Howard Gore. 305 



Quartz Fibers, by C. V. Boys ^ 315 



Ka'nig's Kesearcbes on Musical Harmony, by Sylvanus P. Thompson 335 



The Chemical Problems of To-day, by Victor Meyer 361 



The Photographic Image, by Raphael Meldola 377 



A Tropical Botanical Garden, by M. Treub 389 



Temperature and Life, by Henry de Varigny 407 



Morphology of the Blood Corpuscles, by Charles Sedgwick Minot 429 



Weismann's Theory of Heredity, by George J. Romanes 433 



The Ascent of Man, by Frank Baker 417 



Antiquity of Man, by John Evans 467 



Primitive Home of the Aryans, by A. H. Sayce 475 



The Pre-historic Races of Italy, by Isaac Taylor 4S9 



The Age of Bronze in Egypt, by Oscar Montelius 499 



Progress of Anthropology in 1890, by Otis T. Mason 527 



A Primitive Urn Burial, by J. F. Snyder 609 



Manners and Customs of the Mohavos, by George A. Allen 615 



Criminal Anthropology, by Thomas Wilson 617 



Color Vision and Color Blindness, by R. Brudenell Carter 687 



Technology and Civilization, by F. Reuleaux 705 



The Ramsden Dividing Engine, by J. E. Watkins 721 



Memoir of Elias Loomis, by H. A. Newton 742 



Memoir of William Kitchen Parker 771 



Index to the volume 775 



